I don't think in the 1960's that this world can exist half slave and half free.
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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Lincoln Monument Rally, Spokane, WA
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Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
I hope private industry and labor will also realize that those who are handicapped frequently are more than compensated by their desire to be useful and to play a gainful role.
The rich must help the poor. The industrialized nations must help the developing nations.
The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, the rich and the poor.





